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Friday, May 8, 2009

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.Mother Teresa

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.Mother Teresa

Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.Mother Teresa

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.Mother Teresa

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.Mother Teresa

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.Mother Teresa

Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.Mother Teresa

God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try.Mother Teresa

Good works are links that form a chain of love.Mother Teresa

I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.Mother Teresa

I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.Mother Teresa

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.Mother Teresa

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.Mother Teresa

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.Mother Teresa

I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?Mother Teresa

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.Mother Teresa

If we want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.Mother Teresa

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.Mother Teresa

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.Mother Teresa

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.Mother Teresa

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.Mother Teresa

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.Mother Teresa

It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.Mother Teresa

It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.Mother Teresa

It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.Mother Teresa

It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.Mother Teresa

Jesus said love one another. He didn't say love the whole world.Mother Teresa

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.Mother Teresa

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.Mother Teresa

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.Mother Teresa

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.Mother Teresa

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.Mother Teresa

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.Mother Teresa

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.Mother Teresa

Loneliness is the most terrible poverty.Mother Teresa

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.Mother Teresa

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.Mother Teresa

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.Mother Teresa

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.Mother Teresa

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.Mother Teresa

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.Mother Teresa

Peace begins with a smile.Mother Teresa

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.Mother Teresa

Sweetest Lord, make me appreciative of the dignity of my high vocation, and its many responsibilities. Never permit me to disgrace it by giving way to coldness, unkindness, or impatience.Mother Teresa

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.Mother Teresa

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.Mother Teresa

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.Mother Teresa

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.Mother Teresa

The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.Mother Teresa

The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does not determine the value of what we have done.Mother Teresa

There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those.Mother Teresa

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.Mother Teresa

There is more hunger in the world for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.Mother Teresa

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.Mother Teresa

We are all pencils in the hand of God.Mother Teresa

We can do no great things, only small things with great love.Mother Teresa

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.Mother Teresa

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.Mother Teresa

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.Mother Teresa

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.Mother Teresa

We, the unwilling,led by the unknowing,are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much,for so long,with so little,we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.Mother Teresa

Thursday, May 7, 2009

I have been browsing through the questions but haven't found any information regarding my situation.

I am almost 33 years old, and last October, after spending a decade in unfulfilling, low paying jobs, I decided to resign in order to return to college to pursue a Bachelors Degree in Business Administration, with an option in Human Resources.

I spent 7 years at my last job. However, I have been horribly confused as far as whether or not I made the right choice of quitting a job I held so long in order to go back to college. Sometimes I feel that I am too "old" to be doing this, that perhaps I should just stick with a decent job, move up in a company and retire (my Mother has done this with only a high school diploma, she makes a decent living). Yet sometimes in my heart of hearts I feel that these days a college degree is an absolute necessity.

Therefore, I have the following questions:

What are my chances at my age of securing employment with a college degree?

Do employers prefer to hire recent graduates who are younger?

Is it worth being out of the job market for a few years, at my age, to pursue a college degree?

First of all, 33 years old is not old (I'm in my 40's--it's all relative). And it's certainly not too old to go back to school to pursue your education.

But the answers to all of your questions is: "It depends." Specifically, it depends on why you are going back to college. If it is just to make more money, it will likely be a marginal decision. But if it is to do more meaningful and fulfilling work, the answer is a definite yes.

You're suffering from some angst right now over whether or not you made the right decision. That's OK and natural. You'll get over it as you get closer to your goal. But if you didn't stick it out, you will spend the rest of your life looking over your shoulder wondering "What if..."

Most employers value age and maturity. It will be a positive for you. This is not a competition for good looks (where all of us "oldsters" would lose out to our younger counterparts). This is a competition for who will be the best employee. And almost universally, the older, the wiser, the more mature and the more stable. You will have an advantage when you finish your degree.

Last day I arrived my work an hour and a half late because of the very crowded road near the gate's check point …An old woman and 10 years old boy with school bag on his back were waiting for me.I treated the old lady first, and then asked the boy to get in. He was pale & shaking. He sat on the dental chair and pointed inside his mouth, and said "this is very painful".I looked and saw nothing, I knew he was confused and pointed to the wrong side; I looked to the opposite side and saw a badly carious tooth.I told him that we need to extract this tooth, he shake his head for approval."But we need to have the approval from some one older than you my dear" I said. "Any one from your family as your parents, older brother or sister, aunt, uncle, or even a neighbor ".I added.

He stepped from the chair in an attempt to leave, with his eyes full of tears, and said nothing.-"Are you coming back with someone later? I asked.-"no, I have no one".-"With whom do you live?".-"With my younger brother, he is Mongolian".-I grip his shaky hands and took him to the patio, and asked him to look around, to the other functionaries; (they live in the same village), and asked him if he knew any one?.Few minutes later he pointed to a man, he was one of the servants" H".I sent for" H", and told him that I need some one of Salih' relatives because his tooth need to be extracted. He said "I am his fathers' cousin, I can stay with him because he has no One close…his older brother who was taking care of him was murdered 3 days ago"…-why?- He was a policeman…-"Are you hungry, did you have your breakfast honey?" I asked Salih trying so hard to hold my tears.( I had to ask because he was pale and he could show symptoms of hypoglycemia if he was hungry, he could faint too after dental treatment).- " no I did not , the neighbors did not bring us any". he said.Just then I could not hold my tears any more, I took his little hands and took him to buy him something to eat.-"let us buy something to eat, I am hungry too" ..-" no, I will go home" said Salih pointing to a far cottage..- I will take him to my place, bring him something to eat, and be right back"…said" H".But the boy ran away….I sat in my room, wondering how could these children survive. How could they live alone, what do they do in the darkness every day? Where is our government, are they aware about that policeman's family….I can't imagine my daughter Mariam (she is 8 now) go alone to a dental clinic to extract her tooth ….it's scary for a child to face that alone.After about an hour the boy came back with "H", he ate in his house and came seeking for treatment, I was so happy to see him again, I wanted to give him a big hug, but he was behaving like a man.. He sat silently, I gave him his shot, he was shivering, but was very quiet.I told him he will not feel any thing he will be anesthetized, he nod his head, I extracted his tooth, and then he went without any word…..

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

A blind boy sat on the steps of a building with a hat by his feet. Heheld up a sign which said: "I am blind, please help." There were only a fewcoins in the hat.

A man was walking by. He took a few coins from his pocket and droppedthem into the hat. He then took the sign, turned it around, and wrote somewords. He put the sign back so that everyone who walked by would see the newwords.

Soon the hat began to fill up. A lot more people were giving money tothe blind boy. That afternoon the man who had changed the sign came to seehow things were. The boy recognized his footsteps and asked, "Were you theone who changed my sign this morning? What did you write?"

The man said, "I only wrote the truth. I said what you said but in adifferent way."

What he had written was: "Today is a beautiful day and I cannot seeit."

Do you think the first sign and the second sign were saying the samething?

Of course both signs told people the boy was blind. But the first signsimply said the boy was blind. The second sign told people they were solucky that they were not blind. Should we be surprised that the second signwas more effective?

Moral of the Story: Be thankful for what you have. Be creative.Be innovative. Think differently and positively.

Invite others towards good with wisdom. Live life with no excuse andlove with no regrets. When life gives you a 100 reasons to cry, show lifethat you have 1000 reasons to smile. Face your past without regret. Handleyour present with confidence. Prepare for the future without fear. Keep thefaith and drop the fear.

Great men say, "Life has to be an incessant process of repair andreconstruction, of discarding evil and developing goodness. In the journeyof life, if you want to travel without fear, you must have the ticket of agood conscience."

The most beautiful thing is to see a person smiling

And even more beautiful is, knowing that you are the reason behindit!!!